Joe W. Miller

Joseph Wayne Miller (10 May 1967-) was an American attorney and Republican Party politician who was known for his association with the Alaska Tea Party.

Biography
Joseph Wayne Miller was born in Osborne, Kansas on 10 May 1967, and he enrolled at West Point in 1985, serving in the US Army during the Gulf War as the commander of a tank platoon that took part in the drive through Kuwait. He attended Yale Law School after leaving the army reserves in 1997, and he became a private attorney. Miller and his family moved to Alaska in the mid-1990s, and he became a US magistrate judge. In 2010, he was the Republican Party's candidate for the US Senate seat held by Republican incumbent Lisa Murkowski, having the endorsements of Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement. However, Murkowski defeated Miller as a write-in candidate, and Dan Sullivan beat him in the 2014 senatorial election primary.